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The Comeback [1978]
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Review date: 2002-01-05 Rating: 10 out of 10
This film is a must see film. If you want to see Bill Owen at his horrific best watch this classic. You will not be sorry that you did and I am sure you will want to Comeback to see this again and again
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Reviews
Ponderous 'psychological thriller'.
Review date: 2000-08-24 Rating: 4 out of 10
Despite this director's best efforts and some decent production values, this is an essentially dull film intersperssed though it is with repeated scenes of gratuitous blood-letting. Jack Jones (in his movie debut)produces a fascinatingly bland performance as troubled pop- star 'Nick Cooper', not helped by a meandering script and some cack-handed love scenes with Pamela Stephenson. There is some effort at a 'whodunnit', complete with perfunctory red-herrings, but the plot is irratatingly flawed from the outset : how, for example, does the killer know that Cooper is going to stay at that paticular country house? Questioning the plot of any Walker film is churlish though, and misses the point, for the entertainment value of this film (and the sole reason for my rating of two stars) is entirely based in the performance of Sheila Keith as 'Mrs.B'. She is underused here, but (as in her other Walker films) quite brilliant nonetheless. It is worth buying this video for her performance alone - but be prepared to wade though some pretty turgid nonsense along the way.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Bill Owen
Sheila Keith
Pamela Stephenson
David Doyle
Jack Jones
Creators:
Jack Jones (Primary Contributor)
Pamela Stephenson (Primary Contributor)
Peter Jessop (Cinematographer)
Pete Walker (Producer)
Alan Brett (Editor)
Michael Sloan (Writer)
Murray Smith (Writer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Sovereign Multimedia Ltd
Manufacturer: Sovereign Multimedia Ltd
EAN: 5013037096736
Binding: VHS Tape
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 1998-02-09
Audience rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Running time: 96 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1979-09
Language: English (Original Language)